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Barça collides with reality again

Barça began with the same collapses and the little light of recent years in the search for solutions. It is early to make big balances but there is a story that repeats itself despite the different and exciting signings that were announced so many times in past seasons. One day we would have to explain what “exciting” means and why the Barça fans are so excited when the results again and again deny this club that has not raised its head since it has become accustomed to living, first with Bartomeu and now with Laporta, in the pirate boarding and in the jump of kills. The game was immediately played to the rhythm of Rayo, very serious and competent, and only Dembele’s in its madness and lack of method it offered something different, although scarce. In minute 35, Pedri shot hard but a little wide. Lewandowski I kept trying everything without getting anything. The feeling is that the team has not taken the measurements of the Polish striker well -they center him too high or too low- and if you add to this his jinxed career since he arrived in Barcelona, ​​everything is quite desperate. Those attending the Camp Nou they behaved like a minor crowd, whistling for the opposing goalkeeper’s small losses of time. Everything tasted of impotence, of misfortune, of what we believed that this time he would turn out well, but he was once again following the usual paths. Barça wanted but couldn’t. He could not be blamed for a lack of attitude, which he says in favor of the nobility of the players; but what can be criticized is more worrying because it has to do with their inability as a group.

The atmosphere of a certain euphoria that Laporta has created around what can finally be considered the first sports project of his second presidency is out of proportion to what was seen during the preseason or yesterday in the league premiere, at least during the first part. A weak team, without a competitive rhythm, without clear ideas, weak in defense, neutralized by Rayo, very well trained by Andoni Iraolabut with all the respect in the world, they don’t have players or pretensions that can be bought with this Barcelona that had to dazzle the world and that didn’t lose by a miracle, Ter Stegen through. Araujo on the right side is a disaster. I don’t think it’s that hard to figure out.

Disappointing the team, the coach and frankly complaining and cheap fans who confirm the feeling that we don’t know what to do or how to try something to rescue us. Precipitation, little calm, a false verticality that was not such but little sense of things. It was as if we wanted to look like Liverpool. do you want Xavi? That seems very supported on its ends. Where then is the famous style of Pep y Cruyff? Yesterday it was hard to find a trace of her. It is one thing to buy a great template and the other to know how to weave a well-rounded team that works, that has something to say and knows how. Lots of initiative, little reflection. Lots of electricity, but more short circuit than light.

The second half started clumsily and with the sad horizon that Xavi drew, warming up Sergi Roberto, Frenkie de Jong Already Ansu. If this is the “exciting” thing, I suppose it is that we are thinking of playing in the Europa League and thank you. Little by little the gray became grayer and with Barça not being able to do even what he did fairly well before the break. Without rhythm, and without personality, Rayo had everything to score but between Eric and Christensen They neutralized the danger. The two clearest of the game, visitors. Lewandowski in the escalation jinx of him not only did not score but he got in the way in the small area avoiding a goal from his team. Really curious about this gentleman, to whom from now on I’m going to recommend my restaurants so that he can at least entertain himself while he stays in my city.

Alba slightly whistled, it’s not the first time. El Rayo did the impossible so that nothing would happen. Barça was stirring without grace but getting a little closer to the rival area. Xavi made his triple substitution a reality and the three who were warming up entered for Christensen, Raphinha and Gavi. Rayo was very brave, he looked straight at the game. Dimitrievski, the most called, saved his team with a couple of good interventions. Barça imprecise, mediocre, off. Their clappers make a fool of themselves when they fantasize that “we have a team to win the Champions League.”

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